strawberryjayne:

Llanddwyn’s wild ponies wander across a beach beneath the island’s landmark lighthouse. Wandering over the dunes, past the island’s signal cannon and up to a Celtic cross that commemorates the death of St Dwynwen, Welsh patron saint of lovers.

mori-esque:

bring-us-back-light:

politeq:

glumshoe:

pipistrellus:

kuttithevangu:

The Arctic Fox Research Center in Iceland put cameras in some bird colonies to see if foxes were stealing eggs/chicks

and turns out the foxes were UNJUSTLY ACCUSED

the culprits were horses

HEY THIS IS BAD

My grandfather grew up on a farm in Kansas during the Dust Bowl. He and his brother shared a horse named Patches, which they rode to school each day. Despite being poor as shit and not having quite enough to feed their animals, his family noticed that this horse looked great. His coat was unusually glossy and beautiful all of a sudden - he looked healthier than they did. 

The mystery was solved when my grandfather went into the chicken coop to collect eggs, and saw Patches lifting the window cover, pushing his muzzle underneath the hens, and eating the eggs right out of their nests. 

Horses have been known to also eat meat.

http://thehorseaholic.com/the-forgotten-story-of-meat-eating-horses/

1) The BBC filmed horses eating fish on a beach of an English Island.

2) In Iceland pastured horses are provided, salted fish as a protein and mineral/salt supplement.

3) Horses have been known to consume raw meat and blood willingly in Arabia, New Zealand, and United States.

4) Lord Chamberlain of Bhutan confirmed that the 40 kings horses routinely received a special meal of Tiger fat and still feed their horses beef, and yak meat.

5) There was an American gelding in 1958 that routinely hunted and killed and even consumed small birds. He also repeatedly attacked humans. He was known as “Freight Train”.

6) Lisette a French mare, killed and consumed a Russian Officer during the Napoleonic Campaign.

Horses are now literally the most terrifying shit what the f u c k

I love how that list goes “fish, fish, opportunistic and pre-prepared meat, small birds, A WHOLE RUSSIAN OFFICER”

its-a-gold-song:

niamhermind:

suspiciousmammal:

hapalopus:

suspiciousmammal:

Absolutely fascinated by how the original belgian draft horse, the brabant, just looks like your usual heavy draft horse:

And then American breeders decided to….. improve….. it:

sir that thing looks like it’s made of plastic

I feel like American breeders just have a tendency to do this. Behold, the French Percheron vs the American Percheron

The British Shetland Pony vs the American Shetland Pony

And it’s not just horses. Compare the English Cocker Spaniel with the American Cocker Spaniel

Nevermind. Forget I ever said anything. I don’t want to talk about the yassified belgians anymore.

They’re making them look how Disney would draw them.

castiel-left-his-mark-on-me:

You know Misha and Jensen watched this together and fell over each other laughing like the two dorky old men they are.

bdbangladesh:

BANGLADESH

roach-works:

i recently found out the funniest thing about big horses recently which is that for centuries humans have sworn that the feathering on big horse’s legs has been bred in there for a reason, and the reason given is usually something to do with how it helps keep the joints warm and safe when the big horse is doing hauling work in fields.

the thing is: it doesn’t appreciably do that, because the feathers wick up water and mud, which cancels out any insulation advantage they might hypothetically confer, and also it wasn’t even put there on purpose.

the Leg Get More Hair gene is just linked to the Bones Get More Big gene. when you breed any lineage of horses to have bigger bones–not just taller, but chunkier–the leg hair just happens anyway. so every single breed of draft horse has feathered legs, and even carriage horses like friesians get feathers once they hit a certain threshold of lorge.

when you supersize your horse, mother nature throws in a free pair of booties. how cool is that?

catgf:

driftwood horses by heather jansch